True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4464 episodes
S Chelvan - 'a mouthpiece for those who have no voice'
23 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Carmen Blandin Tarleton on living with a face transplant after a horrific attack
22 Jul 2014,·55 mins
The US soldier and his wife who lived among Afghan villagers
21 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Surviving Iranian death sentence, Arctic shipwreck, and an inferno. Plus a little comedy
20 Jul 2014,·28 mins
The man who faced execution in an Iranian prison accused of helping his brother spy
17 Jul 2014,·55 mins
How an Eritrean refugee posed as husband to 15 different women to help them give birth
16 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Matt Lewis lost seventeen fellow crew members when his ship went down in Antarctic waters
15 Jul 2014,·55 mins
The father fighting for justice for his daughter's murder
14 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Hear my voice: Eritrean hostages, Indian streetchildren and Lance Armstrong whistleblower
13 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Meron Estefanos broadcasts the stories of Eritreans being held for ransom in torture camps
10 Jul 2014,·55 mins
The American doctor treating victims of Guinea's deadliest Ebola Outbreak
09 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Emma O'Reilly on blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling's doping culture
08 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Berivan Kilic escaped a violent marriage, went back to school and then took to politics
07 Jul 2014,·55 mins
True life stories
06 Jul 2014,·55 mins
My terrorist step-brother, Mandela's closest assistant, and a sentimental taxi journey.
06 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Carey McWilliams hunts, is licensed to carry a concealed weapon and is totally blind
03 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Robb Leech's stepbrother went from being a white middle-class boy to an extreme Islamist
02 Jul 2014,·55 mins
With locked in syndrome, Richard Marsh heard doctors asking to turn off his life support
01 Jul 2014,·55 mins
Zelda La Grange, private secretary: almost inseparable from Nelson Mandela for 20 years
30 Jun 2014,·55 mins
NASA's Space Twins, Islamabad park school and the tragic story behind Eric Clapton's song
29 Jun 2014,·28 mins
The Kenya slum kid who became an unlikely rap sensation and United Nations ambassador
26 Jun 2014,·55 mins
How a British soldier pledged to help a Bosnian boy with a life-threatening condition.
25 Jun 2014,·55 mins
American astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly are the only twins who have gone into space
24 Jun 2014,·55 mins
Sanal Edamaruku put his life in danger debunking India's 'false miracles'
23 Jun 2014,·55 mins
Boko Haram took my daughter; Indian auction brothers; Romania's sewer kids; elephant talk
22 Jun 2014,·28 mins
How writer David Stuart MacLean lost his memory as a reaction to anti-malarial drugs
19 Jun 2014,·55 mins
How hundreds of drug-addicted children seek refuge beneath the streets of Bucharest
18 Jun 2014,·55 mins
The agony of a Nigerian father whose daughter was kidnapped by Boko Haram
17 Jun 2014,·55 mins
John All filmed his struggle for survival after a serious fall in the Himalayas
16 Jun 2014,·55 mins
Separated by war reunited by TV; Cycle superher; I sold a kidney; World Cup referee
15 Jun 2014,·28 mins
